Search Results: Titles starting with O from Julian Roberts Fine Books

Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1900. E. H. Shackleton's first book. Presentation inscription from Ernest Shackleton's father to endpaper "Given to Ellen Forman by Dr. Shackleton (Father of the Explorer), 1900" First edition, first printing. Original blue pictorial boards. Housed in a bespoke powder blue quarter morocco gilt clamshell case. A very good copy with some light scuffing to boards and tiny crack to foot with very small associated chip to bottom left of spine. Internally complete - textblock detatched from boards as is common with this title. Minor rust marking at staples. Most copies of this title are usually found with little or no spine. A rare association copy revealing the proud & perhaps prescient sentiments of the "explorer's" father. Shackleton's naval career began at age sixteen; by 1898 he had become a Master Mariner, transferring to the troopship "Tintagel Castle" in 1899 during the Boer War. This voyage is highly… Read More

Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean with no inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is clean & fresh. Publishers price label of 16snet to front flap. A lovely copy, From Jamaica, paradise of sunshine and exotic fish, to Berlin, cold grim city of stealth, James Bond pursues two strangely heroic enemies of the Secret Service.

Michael Joseph, 1965. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Black boards gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper by Broom Lynne. A near fine copy with clean boards. One tiny spot to leading textblock edge. The near fine/fine dustwrapper is complete with the lightest wear. A light mark to rear panel o/w fine. Orginal price of 18snet to front flap. A lovely copy with none of the usual fading to brown wrapper spine. Sid Halley is shot but whilst convalescing he finds the pace getting hotter and hotter as he investigates the contrived decline of a racecourse.

Sampson, Low, Marston & Company, 1900. Limited [First] edition copy on Van Gelder's hand made paper. This copy out of sequence with author's initials in the limitation number box. Deluxe large paper issue with vellum spine & ribbed green buckram boards. Topedge gilt. Deckle edges. This copy is also Signed by the author [which is not normal to this Limited edition] in lilac to the titlepage. A near fine copy. Some light dusting. Foxing to endpapers. A superb and rare fully signed copy of this vintage fishing title.

Sampson Low, Marston and Company, 1897. Limited [First] edition No 79 of 250 copies Van Gelder's hand made paper. Deluxe large paper issue with vellum spine & ribbed green buckram boards. Topedge gilt. Deckle edges. This copy has the author's initials next to the limitation number on the limitation page but is also Signed by the author [which is not normal to this Limited edition] in lilac to the titlepage. A near fine copy. Some light dusting. Foxing to endpapers. A superb and rare fully signed copy of this vintage fishing title. Angling and natural history from Marston's diaries including fly fishing on the river's Test and Itchen. Also notes on Walton's Compleat Angler.

Chapman and Hall, 1957. First Edition, first printing. 8vo. 184pp. Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dustwrapper by Biro. A fine copy with clean boards & a little light foxing to leading edge - barely noticeable. No inscriptions. The fine dustwrapper is crisp & clean. Original price of 12s6dnet to front flap. Waugh described this book as his 'mad book' - a largely autobiographical account of a period of hallucinations caused by bromide intoxication that he experienced in the early months of 1954, recounted through his Catholic author protagonist Gilbert Pinfold.

Kestrel Books, 1980. First edition, first printing. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A near fine/fine copy with clean boards. Internally clean with no inscriptions & no marks to textblock edges. The near fine dustwrapper is fresh clean. Tiny sliver of loss to the top of the front flap - hardly noticeable. None of the usual fading to lilac spine. Original price of £3.50net to front flap. A lovely clean copy of a uncommon title from a tiny publisher hence its relative scarcity. Princess Amy of Phantasmorania has a very special christening gift - Ordinariness. Unlike all her six immaculate raven haired sisters she has freckles and brown hair and enjoys to play outside rather than playing the Harp. When her parents try to arrange her marriage she runs off and becomes a kitchen maid; but there she meets a prince just as ordinary (and special) as her!

Bantam Press, 2015. Signed, inscribed & dated [2015] to titlepage. Black boards with gilt titles. Pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy with clean boards. No marks to textblock edges. The fine dustwrapper is crisp and fresh with no fading to orange lettering on spine. Original price of £20 to front flap. For more than forty years Frederick Forsyth has been thrilling us with stories from The Day of the Jackal to the Odessa File but what many do not know is that many of his most intriguing stories have been in his own life involving the IRA, the Stasi, the IRA, arms dealers in Hamburg etc and they are detailed in this book for the first time. Its a memoir like no other!